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Category Archives: Biology
Nature and Chaos
We don’t even know what randomness is. In gambling and cryptography computer algorithms are used to create “pseudo” random strings that are difficult to cipher, but ultimately these are “determined” by the algorithm. To get “true” randomness we resort to … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Chaos, Fourth Law of Thermodynamics, god of chaos, Randomness
Tagged Chaos, Fourth Law of Thermodynamics, Life, Randomness
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Ah, the Frogs
Almost forgot about the frogs. It has been dry, desert dry, in California for so long. They are tiny creatures, like what we used to call “tree” frogs, but they live in the grass. You can never imagine there would … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, California Drought, Climate
Tagged Frog Patience, Frogs on the plain
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The Dinosaurs Died for our Sins
The original sin, secondary, tertiary, quaternary sins. Hurricanes, tornadoes are upon us. Quick! Find a witch to burn. Well, at least he saved the weed eater. Not to minimize the tragedies, just the sensationalism. Nobody wants their house trashed and … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Climate Change, History of Life
Tagged Mount Etna, sensationalism, The original sin
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The Primacy of Vulcan
In the beginning there was a great flash of light, and soon there was the primal proton, Hydrogen, which fused to produce Helium , and so on, within supernovae, to create our pantheon of elements. Honestly, we need to muster … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Geology
Tagged Atum, Cosmology, Egypt, Heliopolis, Primacy of Vulcan, Shu, Technology, Vulcan
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YGBFkiddinme, Low Emissions Grass?
From Nature Magazine this pearl of pulchritude: “The solution, says Michael Peters, an agronomist at CIAT and leader of the team that has developed the low-emissions grass, is to encourage ammonium to persist in the soil for longer, by suppressing microbial … Continue reading
I Deny
“Denier!”, in the tone of apostasy. Well, call me the apostate, because I deny. I deny that there is any reasonable scientific evidence that Carbon dioxide will cause catastrophic global warming. I deny this as a naturalist and serious student … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide Loves to Swim, Carbon Prohibitionists, Carbon Theology, Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Religion
Tagged Carbon, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Carbon Management, Carbon Prohibitionism, Carbon Prohibitionists, environment, Global Warming Denial
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The Dim Sum, Microbial Dark Matter and Wine Dark Seas
The oceans are a microbial soup I like to call the Dim Sum. It is an appropriate pun because it is both dim in the sense we don’t understand it, and a dim sum in that we cannot describe it mathematically. The … Continue reading
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